Prime Talk - eCommerce Podcast

In this Prime Talk Podcast Video Sponsored by GETIDA – Chad Rubin - Co-Founder & CEO of Skubana - a cutting edge eCommerce management platform, shares his life's journey into eCommerce.

Chad was born and raised in Rego Park in New York City, to a family of Holocaust survivors. His parents opened a store for vacuum-cleaners in Westfield, NJ where he eventually moved and lived when he was in third grade. He is the first college graduate in his family and got his degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2006.

During college, he also met his wife to be as they were college sweethearts. When he graduated he entered the finance industry and started working on Wall-Street for the investment firm Thomas Weisel. During the 2008 economic meltdown in the finance world, he eventually got laid off in 2009 during another downsizing round.

He then shifted his focus and energy on developing a multi-channel eCommerce infrastructure for his parents' vacuum-cleaning business and shifting it to sell online. In 2012 Chad lost his father who passed away from an illness right when the online business was gaining momentum.

Over time Chad has developed his own branded products in the vacuum-cleaning and coffee filters categories to great success. Through many trials, errors, and great challenges his online business grew to large dimensions and presented further opportunities for Chad to keep innovating and eventually being involved in other ventures.

He turned out to become a co-founder of the Prosper Show - the largest Amazon Seller Conference in the world, and wrote a best-selling book about his entrepreneurial journey called "Cheaper Easier Direct". However, the main challenges he was facing with growing his brand's Direct To Consumer (DTC) online reach led him to co-found Skubana.

Today Skubana is a cutting edge eCommerce management platform that helps DTC brands grow and manage their online operations. He advocates entrepreneurs to focus on developing businesses that they are passionate about and essentially become an extension of themselves. He believes this approach can be a key factor for long-term success.

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In this Prime Talk Podcast Video Sponsored by GETIDA – Dwight Moore - CEO of Tradeport - A leading eCommerce reverse logistics company, shares his life's journey into eCommerce.

Dwight grew up in Greenwich, Rhode Island with a passion for sports, athletics, and sailing. He studied mechanical engineering at Union College in Schenectady, New York where his grandfather was actually the mayor of the town and graduated in 1984.

After graduation, he was supposed to go to the Nuclear Navy to be a captain of a submarine but ended up going to work for General Electric (GE). He worked for GE for 8 years and got some valuable business experience. He then went to work for Lockheed Martin in the aerospace industry mainly in manufacturing. The next station for Dwight was managing the manufacturing for National Cash Register Corporation (NCR) which manufactures ATM machines and Point of Sales systems.

Dwight left an executive position with NCR (a public company) to work for a startup company called NTS, and took a one-third cut in pay, so he can lead the company to new heights. During the next 15 years, Dwight became the CEO of the company, it went through an IPO in 2003, grew ten times, generated over $400 million in sales, and eventually made an exit and sold for $410 Million to a Private Equity firm.

After a short period of being retired, his entrepreneurial bug led Dwight to found his own private equity firm called Echelon Partners. He is now the president of Echelon and the CEO of TradePort which is a portfolio investment for Echelon. Dwight and TradePort are heavily focused on helping eCommerce companies solve reverse logistics challenges. This includes marketplace returns such as Amazon FBA removals, product inspections, refurbishing, inventory liquidations, and much more.

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In this Prime Talk Podcast Video Sponsored by GETIDA and recorded LIVE at the Prosper Virtual Show 2020 – Jana Krekic - Founder & CEO of YLT Translations - A Leading eCommerce marketing agency, shares her life's journey into eCommerce.

Jana was born and raised in Belgrade, Serbia, and attended two schools growing up. A regular school and a music school where she played the piano. She was supposed to develop a route as a professional musician but quickly realized that her passion lays somewhere else.

She discovered a passion for the country of Norway by watching a TV show. This led her to study Norwegian at university and adopt the language within a single year. She also began teaching Norwegian to professionals who wanted to get a job and migrate to Norway as highly skilled professionals.

An opportunity in 2008 came up for Jana to work remotely for a Danish eCommerce company at a calling center. This allowed her to also live for a while in the USA, work remotely for the eCommerce company, and also continue teaching languages to top-level professionals. Within 8 years Jana became a Chief Operations Officer for the eCommerce company and also established a branch for them in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The combination of high-level experience in eCommerce and languages led Jana to establish YLT Translations to help eCommerce sellers all over the world expand their reach. Today YLT is a global leader in helping sellers worldwide offer their products in multiple global marketplaces and customize the marketing language to fit the culture of each market.

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In this Prime Talk Podcast Video Sponsored by GETIDA – Jay Lagarde - Founder & CEO of eComEngine - A leading marketplace management platform, shares his life's journey into eCommerce.

Jay was born and raised in New Orleans Lousiana which happens to be the birthplace of Jazz music and a really vibrant town. He went to college at the University in Richmond, Virginia, and got a degree in Liberal Arts and a Major in Philosophy.

He got a job working for the State of Virginia as a regulatory policy analyst and worked there for about a decade until 2004. In this position, he laid the cutting edge online foundations for the state regulator, by setting up an online portal tool that can be used to streamline all the rulemaking processes for the state. The tool was dubbed the "Virginia Regulatory Town Hall". Jay and his team won national recognition for setting a precedent for lawmaking in the digital age.

Over the years and by chance, Jay's wife turned to be an early adaptor of selling on eBay which dragged Jay into discovering the eCommerce world. He quickly started to learn how the whole concept of a global online marketplace takes place with eBay and Amazon. During 2004 he was able to find success with building a state of the art systems and solutions for selling online. Some of these tool solutions have become legendary and are still in use by many sellers today such as FeedbackFive, RestockPro, and more!

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In this Prime Talk Podcast Video Sponsored by GETIDA – James Stein - Founder & COO of RecomBrands - An Amazon brand acquirer, shares his life's journey into eCommerce.

James was born and raised in South Africa and moved to the United States to get an MBA at Boston College. He got a job working in the real estate industry in the New York area where he got valuable experience of how large-scale acquisitions are made.

James spent a few years working in the real estate and food supply industries in which he also experienced working on a startup related to food supplies products. By chance and common friends, James met his business partner Ryan Gnesin who happened to live right next to him in New York City.

James and Ryan began selling on Amazon together and quickly grew into an 8 figure business. At that point, they realized that they are loving the e-commerce world and the great potential it holds. This led them to acquire a few private label brands in order to expand their online business which turned to be greatly successful. This was in fact the birth of RecomBrands.

RecomBrands has now raised tens of millions of dollars of funding with the purpose of purchasing established private label Amazon businesses, streamline and push those brands to the next level, and establish itself as an online retailing powerhouse of leading brands.

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In this Prime Talk Podcast Video Sponsored by GETIDA – Jim Mann - Director of acquisitions at Thrasio - A leading marketplace brand acquirer, and shares his life's journey into eCommerce.

Jim was born and raised in London to a British father and a Spanish mother. After he graduated from university he found a job selling educational content by Tony Robbins and other mindset improvement solutions on how people and organizations can fulfill goals and better their position. He stayed in this job for almost 10 years until the company got sold.

The next station for Jim was moving to Tarifa, Spain as he was drawn to the lifestyle of this magical beach town. This brought him to live by the beach, do consulting work for e-commerce platforms on how to expand, and also selling surf and lifestyle products in his own retail store by the beach.

In 2013 a few friends of Jim told him about a course about selling on Amazon called Amazing Selling Machine (ASM). He took the course, began selling on Amazon, and grew the business to 7 figures. When Covid-19 began to spread during early 2020 Jim's private label brand took a downturn. This led him to reach out to his friend Stephanie Fox, a co-founder of Thrasio. The largest Amazon brand acquirer company in the world.

Now Jim is the director of acquisition that is spearheading the phenomenal growth of Thrasio. He engages with Amazon sellers daily with a special focus on securing smooth exits for the Amazon sellers and for Thrasio, in a grand effort to turn Thrasio into truly one a kind global eCommerce giant.

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In this Prime Talk Podcast Video Sponsored by GETIDA – Melissa Simonson - General Manager of Empowery - A Leading Cooperative (Co-Op) for Amazon Sellers, shares her life's journey into eCommerce.

Melissa was born in Germany while her father was in the US Army. She eventually moved to Washington State with her family where she grew up. She started working at an early age at a company owned by her older brother Steve Simonson where she got some early experience working in e-commerce.

Over the years Melissa has transferred living in a few states and changing jobs, and at a certain breaking point, she found herself all alone with children and no money. This lead Melissa to grab a bucket and a mop and become a business owner providing cleaning services. She surprisingly grew this business and built a team that was working around the clock cleaning houses during the day, and commercial properties at night.

After 5 years of running her own cleaning services business, her brother Steve reached out to her so she can help him set up and manage Empowery. An innovative non-profit cooperative for Amazon sellers. Today Empowery has grown to help many Amazon sellers grow their business through discounted services and educational activities.

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When You Save A Life, You Save A World - In this Special Episode sponsored by GETIDA, Mike Zagare, the founder of 12 Days of Nuggets talks about how Amazon Sellers can help the world become a better place, by putting an end to child slavery. If possible, please share this video to raise awareness of this problem.

12 Days of Nuggets is a special 12-day event for Amazon Sellers that helps them learn tricks (nuggets) on how to grow and improve their business. The tips are shared by top e-commerce leaders from all over the world in the hopes of helping the sellers generate more sales and prosper. In return for providing nuggets to Amazon sellers that helps them make more money, the sellers are encouraged to donate money and raise funding for ending child slavery.

The funds raised from this special event will all be donated to Operation Underground Railroad (OUR). OUR is an organization that finds and rescues children out of the hands of child traffickers and helps them to adjust back to life in a normal society.

There are approximately hundreds of thousands of children in the USA that are suffering from child slavery. Make sure to tune in and donate to 12 Days Of Nuggets and help so save lives!

Special Offer - GETIDA is the main sponsor of 12 Days Of Nuggets and will MATCH YOUR DONATION to 12 Days of Nuggets by providing you with free FBA Reimbursements, up to $10,000.

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In this Prime Talk Podcast Video Sponsored by GETIDA – Mac Schlesinger - Founder & CEO of Best Seller Listers - A Leading listing optimization agency for Amazon Sellers, shares his journey into eCommerce.

Mac was born and raised in Monroe, NY in an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. He spent most of his childhood learning in religious institutions until he became a young adult. When he got married and making an income became a concern he found it challenging to get ahead.

He eventually found the enormous opportunity that laid with eCommerce and especially the Amazon marketplace. As he tried to sell his own products online, Mac quickly discovered that his strength was creating beautiful and high-converting listings. This paved the way for him to start his own business helping Amazon sellers optimize their product listings to great success.

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This is the first episode of a special production by PrimeTalk & sponsored by GETIDA about the topic of - Making An Amazon Exit.

There are currently billions of dollars being directed at buying Amazon businesses. Because the importance of this subject is growing tremendously fast. PrimeTalk has teamed up with #Fortunet - An Investment Banking Firm. Fortunet is a world leader in assisting Amazon sellers and Amazon business buyers with making a purchase.

Fortunet has already successfully worked on 39 deals of selling an Amazon business. They focus on helping selling mid-to-large Amazon businesses. This means any Amazon business that generates at least $1 Million in annual revenue and is profitable up to hundreds of millions of dollars in annual sales.

In this first episode, Michal Oron who is the Co-Founder & CEO of Fortunet provides the main reasons for Why & When To Sell An Amazon Business. If you are an Amazon seller and are curious about this matter, this episode is dedicated to you!

We hope Amazon sellers will find this episode and the rest of the program useful and making the right decisions when selling their business.

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